WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a task force that will handle the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.

The president signed the order in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Tuesday afternoon, where he shared that the new White House Olympics task force will handle the security at the Olympics and other issues pertinent to the massive event. The Olympics task force will be comprised of Trump’s cabinet and administration members.

“During his first term, President Trump was instrumental in securing America’s bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared in a statement ahead of the signing. “The President considers it a great honor to oversee this global sporting spectacle in his second term. Sports is one of President Trump’s greatest passions, and his athletic expertise, combined with his unmatched hospitality experience, will make these Olympic events the most exciting and memorable in history.”

Casey Wasserman, the chair and president of LA28, the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, expressed her appreciation to Trump and the WHite House on Tuesday “their leadership and unwavering support,” describing the upcoming event as “the largest and most ambitious Olympic and Paralympic Games ever hosted in the United States.”

“Since we secured this historic opportunity in 2017, President Trump has consistently recognized the magnitude of our responsibility in welcoming the world to Los Angeles,” Wasserman said. “The creation of this task force marks an important step forward in our planning efforts and reflects our shared commitment to delivering not just the biggest, but the greatest Games the world has ever seen in the summer of 2028.”

In July, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee quietly changed its policy in July to comply with the president’s executive order banning men from competing against women, a major win for conservatives and the White House.

The Daily Wire reported this week that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued guidance building off the president’s Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports executive order, ensuring that certain athlete-related petitions and applications will be available only to women. The guidance calls for the Department of Homeland Security to develop policies to block male international athletes from competing against women in the United States.

A USCIS spokesman told The Daily Wire that the president’s February executive order was the catalyst for the agency’s decision. That order directed that all funds be rescinded from “educational programs that deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities,” saying that allowing men in women’s sports is “demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports.”

Speaking alongside Texas Democrat legislators who fled their state in order to block the Texas GOP from pursuing redistricting, Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker reached the zenith of hypocrisy, declaring that changing election maps in Illinois was “not something that I want to do,” while rhapsodizing, “We’re fighting for democracy.”

Illinois @GovPritzker: “Here in the state of Illinois, it is possible to redistrict. It’s not something that I want to do … We’re fighting for democracy. There are not rules anymore, apparently.” pic.twitter.com/fvWnsaW1M2

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Pritzker presided over a congressional redistricting in Illinois in 2021 that received an “F” for its partisanship from gerrymander.princeton.edu, a website that specializes in tracing gerrymandering across the nation.

In 2018, in his first campaign for governor, Pritzker stressed the need for independent congressional and state legislative redistricting, saying, “We should amend the constitution to create an independent commission to draw legislative maps, but in the meantime, I would urge Democrats and Republicans to agree to an independent commission to handle creating a new legislative map.”

In January 2021, Pritzker reiterated that promise; his spokesman said Pritzker “has been clear he will veto a partisan map.” But by April 2021, he said he trusted state lawmakers — as both chambers of the state government were controlled by Democrats — to draw a fair redistricting map, claiming it was too late for an independent commission. Republican House leader Jim Durkin slammed Pritzker, saying he “seems to suffer from retrograde amnesia.”

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) echoed, “Governor Pritzker lied to people of Illinois, plain and simple. When he was a candidate for Governor in 2018, Pritzker made an ironclad promise to voters that he would veto any redistricting proposal that was drawn by legislators. That turned out to be a lie. Now that he’s in power and the Democrats have maintained their supermajority control of the General Assembly, Pritzker is enabling a partisan redistricting process that will be used to tighten his party’s grip on power for another decade.”

Illinois House Assistant Minority Leader Tim Butler (R-Springfield) pointed out Pritzker had previously said if there were not an amendment, he would support creating an independent commission. “Butler added that he has a bill ready to go, but Democrats have blocked the effort rather than Republicans as Pritzker now claims,” Illinois Policy reported.

“I would say it’s your friends and the Democratic Party that are not engaging. And we need to have you hold to your word, governor, that you will veto, veto, a partisan map like your office has said,” Butler told the Illinois State House.